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#1178 Can not open odt file in microsoft word

Dirk Vollmar — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:57:14 -0000

status: open --> closed-rejected
assigned_to: Dirk Vollmar
Group: Deviations_in_implementing_ODF --> ...

#1178 Can not open odt file in microsoft word

Dirk Vollmar — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:54:43 -0000

Ticket moved from /p/odf-converter/known-issues/325/

Can not open odt file in microsoft word

Watcharapon Hongthon — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:42:18 -0000

Ticket 1178 has been modified: Can not open odt file in microsoft word
Edited By: Dirk Vollmar (divo76)
Status updated: u'open' => u'closed-rejected'
_milestone updated: u'Deviations_in_implementing_ODF' => u'...'
Owner updated: None => u'divo76'

Unexpected Error

Morlang — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:05:08 -0000

Report of an unexpected Error

Cannot open document

Andreas Lück — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:51:09 -0000

MS Word breaks opening the attached ODT file.

ODT: Converting output file from rst2odt fails

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:38:55 -0000

App version: Word 2003
Add-in version: 4.0.5309
Direction of conversion: ODF->OOX
Roundtrip: No
Reproducible: Yes
Degree of occurence: systematic
Severity: no go [for this type of content]
Type of bug: Conversion

Description:
When trying to open any ODT document created from Restructured Text by the docutils-0.7 rst2odt converter, I get the message: "An unexpected error occurred. Please feel free to fill a bug report on the project web site (http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net) with your file attached."

This happens even for very simple documents (e.g. one line of plain text), and also persists after opening and re-saving the document in OpenOffice 3.2.

An attempt to open the temporary .docx file directly from within Word 2003 fails, even though the Office compatibility plugin for docx is installed, and works fine for other types of docx files. Similarly, a simple text file that was originally created in OpenOffice 3.2 opens fine on the same machine.

The attached .zip file contains both the original output from rst2odt (test.odt) as well as a version first opened and saved by OpenOffice 3.2 (test2.odt). Both files show the same behaviour.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Double click on "test.odt"

2. Confirm the following dialog with OK:

"Some elements may have been lost during the transformations. [...] Footer dimensions / Header dimensions / Page layout properties"

3. Confirm this error message:

---------------------------
ODF Converter
---------------------------
An unexpected error occurred. Please feel free to fill a bug report on the project web site (http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net) with your file attached.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

4. Open "temp" folder in Explorer.

5. Double click on "test_tmp3.docx" (or similar name)

6. Word opens with a mesage: "There was an error opening the file."

DOCX: Bottom margin decreased

Ruth S. — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:47:11 -0000

R5305
Win XP
Office 2007

File: FaxSample.docx

Problem: In the source file, the bottom margin is set to 2cm. After conversion, it is set to only 1cm.

DOCX: Table row height too big

Ruth S. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:38:27 -0000

R5293
Win XP
Office 2010

File: Office_2010_Volume_Licensing_Guide.docx

The file contains a table at p. 6. After conversion to ODT, the rows are higher than in the source file. Thus, the text which was originally placed below the table is now placed at the next page.

DOCX: Grouped shapes increased in size & positioned wrongly

Ruth S. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:43:40 -0000

R5293
Office 2010
Win XP

File: Test VML 2010.docx

The file contains two shapes which are grouped. After conversion, the colour is wrong and the shapes are much too big. Moreover, they're now placed on top of each other instead of next to each other.

DOCX: Overlapping shapes positioned wrongly

Ruth S. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:39:33 -0000

R5293
Office 2003
Win XP

File: Testfeatures DOCX V2.0 all 2010.docx

At page 1, there are 4 overlapping shapes. After conversion to ODT, these shapes are placed at the top of page 2.